So my trafficker was Royall
Jenkins. He is the leader of a
religious organization formerly known as
the United Nation of Islam.
They are now known as the Value Creators.
So the trafficking began when
my great grandmother
introduced me to Royall Jenkins at a
public religious meeting. I
was seven years old. In the
middle of the meeting while Royall
Jenkins spoke with his members,
he requested that I be brought to him.
Because I was a kid, I didn't have a choice,
my great grandmother made
all of my choices for me.
And then subsequently after
beginning to live with Royall
Jenkins' family, they made all the
choices for me. And so
I had no authority and no
choice at that part. My main
role, there was a domestic
servant and that included not only
taking care of him and his
multiple wives and his concubines,
but also his multiple sets of young children.
Another thing I was expected to do
was to champion this work over going to
school. So that changed for me
because I was in school prior to all this
happening. I wasn't able to go back to school.
And then, you know, the rules began to
become a lot more strict. So instead of being
able to communicate, even to speak with them, it
was clear that I wasn't to talk to anybody
in a way where they were my family or my friends
but I was a servant and so I was less than.
So you know, even at eight years
old, you know, that really
made me confused because I
initially thought that I was going
to be here as another member
of their family, which was told to me but
in reality I was there to give them free labor.
I came across multiple health care
professionals who at that time did not really
know the signs of trafficking,
although some of them may have
had an inkling or you know,
had the look on their face
like 'something isn't just right', they didn't
really know how to speak up about it.
A few years later after living with them
we all moved to Kansas City, KS
I was really sick
because they were not letting me
eat, you know, starvation was
used as punishment, torture and
all those other things. So you know
when they took me to the doctor because at
this point my great grandmother began
to put pressure on them.
You know, the doctor literally
almost asked me like 'are you
trapped, are you okay?' Because
there was a lady who was
standing at the door, she
was standing there so that I
wouldn't say the wrong things
And I tried to hint at
the doctor that I don't live
in Kansas City, Kansas, I
don't even...I don't even
know where I am like, you
know, and, you know,
they're not my parents, you know,
I don't really remember the
words I actually used, but I
used the words that made me
feel safe enough to kinda
ask for help in that particular
manner. And he, I saw him
and he almost picked up the
phone. He literally moved his
hand over the phone to like
say, call somebody, but then
he just said, no, forget
it. And then you know,
that was that I went back
home with them. My great
grandmother began to realize that she
was being manipulated. She began
to realize that she herself was
being coerced or had been coerced
to participate in this entire
organization and that Royall Jenkins did
not have her best interest in
mind. And so their relationship
quickly deteriorated as she was one
of the major financial donors
for this organization. He pushed
back, he hit me. He
cut off all communications, of
course he chose to demonize her,
you know, calling her the
devil and you know, if I
associate with the devil, then
that means I'm the devil too
and then I'm going to hell
blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, fear, fear, fear.
And so because I was in
another state, it was difficult
for her to get to me or
get the authorities to work
across jurisdictions. To understand
what was not only happening,
but occurring on within
multiple states and then sometimes on
an international level. So it
took awhile. However, she
basically threatened him with the FBI
and stated that if, you don't
send her back now I'm calling
the FBI and I'm sure, you
know, I don't know what they're
going to catch you with but
I'm sure they're not gonna be happy that
you have all these kids working
for free in this type of
predicament. And so that motivated him
to put me back on the bus,
the same bus I went up
there on and he sent me back
to Washington D. C.